With state judicial vacancies reaching what are being described as “historic” highs, and mounting caseloads as courts make plans to reopen, a perfect storm is about to hit the judiciary, Judge Glenn Grant predicted Tuesday.

Grant, acting administrative director of the New Jersey courts, testified before the state Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee via Zoom Tuesday, saying that judicial vacancies, coupled with the significant backlog of jury trials and an expected tsunami in landlord-tenant cases this year, will combine to test the judiciary like no other time before.